Near the sea

Island region of Russia: Land of volcanoes, hills and seas

The Sakhalin Region is the only region of Russia that is completely located on the islands.

It includes the island of Sakhalin with the adjacent small islands of Moneron and Tyuleniy, as well as the Kuril Islands.

Sakhalin is the largest of the region's islands

It stretched from north to south for 948 km. Its maximum width is 160 km, and the minimum is only 26 km.

Land of rivers and lakes

The Islands have a myriad of lakes, rivers, streams and waterfalls.

Sakhalin alone has more than 65.000 rivers and 17.000 lakes (both salt and fresh).

Isolation

The island is separated from mainland Russia by the Tatar Strait and the Nevelskoy Strait, the Amur Estuary and the Sakhalin Bay, and from Japan by the La Perouse Strait.

From the west and south, Sakhalin Island is washed by the waters of the warm Sea of ​​Japan, from the north and east by the cold Sea of ​​Okhotsk.

Landscapes above the clouds

Most of the territory is mountainous.
But the mountains are not very high: Mount Lopatina (1609 m) has risen above the sea level.